History Characters / CoolRunnings

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* {{Determinator}}: They push through no matter what gets in their way, be it their inexperience, people laughing at them, the cold in Canada or the hype over their Swiss adversaries.

!The 1988 Winter Olympic Games

%%* {{Determinator}}

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: During the bobsled recruitment scene, he admits that he is only joining the team (and possibly tried out for the Summer Olympics earlier) to get away from Jamaica. Later, inside the hotel room, Yul dismisses everyone in their country as a fool with no goals in life "and thrilled to death about it". It's clear that Yul actually ''wants'' to make something of his life, and he sees the Olympics as his first step to achieving his goals.

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This seems to be his main gripe throughout the film. During the bobsled recruitment scene, he admits that he is only joining the team (and possibly tried out for the Summer Olympics earlier) to get away from Jamaica. Then later, inside the hotel room, Yul dismisses everyone in their country as a "damn near happy" fool with no goals in life. It's clear that Yul actually ''wants'' to make something of his life, and he sees the Olympics as his first step to achieving his goals.

* TokenGoodTeammate: He's the only one of Irv's associates who is still on decent terms with him and helps him out by giving the Jamaicans their bobsled.

* JerkassToOne: The only person he's really a jerk to is Irv, which is understandable considering what Irv did to him when he cheated all those years ago. The Jamaicans are just casualties by association. [[TookALevelOfKindness He does seem to warm up to the team by the end, however.]].

-->'''Irv:''' You see Sanka, the driver has to work harder than anyone. He's the first to show up, and the last to leave. When his buddies are all out drinking beer, he's up in his room studying pictures of turns. You see, a driver must remain focused one hundred percent at all times. Not only is he responsible for knowing every inch of every course he races, he's also responsible for the lives of the other men in the sled. Now do you want that responsibility?

%%* HateSink: Until the end of the movie, anyways.
* {{Jerkass}}: Oh yes. While pretty much everyone looks down on the Jamaicans, he goes out his way to insult them to their faces.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk

* PetTheDog: He eventually comes to respect the Jamaican team's determination and performance. After they crash, he still congratulates them and tells them he hopes to see them at the next Olympics.

%%* HateSink: Along with Grool.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He does seem to warm up to the Jamaicans by the end, however.
* JerkassToOne: The only person he's really a jerk to is Irv, which is understandable considering what Irv did to him when he cheated all those years ago. The Jamaicans are just casualties by association.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: Irv invokes this trope when assigning Derice as the leader of the team.